Lenses We Use & Recommend

Usually forgotten when compared to the fancy new cameras that come out each year, a lens has a major impact on the quality of the image you record. Also, they don't lose their financial value nearly as much as cameras do, so invest in some quality glass is an investment you can always recoup later if you need to. Here are the lenses we use to film our videos.

When I am filming handheld or documentary style, with my C100 or 5D, this is the lens I'm almost always using. The image stabilization on it is great and you can film wide or really zoomed in without changing lenses. I love this thing.

This is my newest lens that I picked up to get extreme wide-angle shots with my cropped sensor cameras (C100 ii & 60D). While it doesn't have a shallow depth of field, it has minimal distortion on the edges & image stabilization for a low cost.

This is my second newest lens and I got it to have a telezoom option on my cropped sensor C100 Mark II. This enables me to get shots from a distance I couldn't before with image stabilization. It also has face-tracking AF with the C100 ii.

This is the one lens on this page that I haven't owned myself, but have rented a bunch for photos and video. There are more expensive 2.8 versions, with image stabilization, that are better quality glass, but they start to get pretty heavy to travel with and use.

With two focus settings (full or partial ranges), this is really versatile and better than the 55-250mm above, but much bulkier and you stand out a bunch.

Whenever there is dust on my lenses, I use this "puffer" to blow it away. Really inexpensive and much better than remove dust with your finger or by blowing on the lens like it is an old NES cartridge of Excitebike that won't play.

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